وَكَمْ أَهْلَكْنَا قَبْلَهُم مِّن قَرْنٍ هَلْ تُحِسُّ مِنْهُم مِّنْ أَحَدٍ أَوْ تَسْمَعُ لَهُمْ رِكْزًۢا
Quran glossary · draft
رِكْزًا
a sound
A sound heard from someone as evidence of that person's presence.
Lexical scope
Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1
Roots: ركز
Lemmas: ركز
Forms: رِكْزًۢا
Occurrence examples (1 of 1)
Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.
Why this meaning was chosen
Quran-internal review covered the sole occurrence of the masculine noun رِكْز at 19:98. After recalling destroyed generations, the ayah asks whether anyone among them can be sensed or whether any such sound can be heard from them. Its position as the object of تَسْمَعُ and its parallel with detecting a person establish an audible sign of presence; the rhetorical question emphasizes total silence. The target is indefinite accusative singular. The aligned-reading field supplies no variant requiring a separate rule; no protected meaning was edited and no exact lexical collision was found.